Pennsylvania Act 1840-146 — EBENEZER METHODIST EPISCOPAL CONGREGATION - INCORPORATED

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AN ACT

Incorporating the Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal Congregation of the Borough of Reading, and for other purposes.

Section 15. Acknowledgments made in any of the United States by husband and wife

Any and every grant, bargain and sale, release, or other deed of conveyance or assurance of any lands, tenements or hereditaments in this Commonwealth, heretofore bona fide made, executed and delivered by husband and wife, within any other of the United States, where the acknowledgment of the execution thereof has been taken and certified by any officer or officers in any of the states where made and executed, who was or were authorized by the laws of such state to take and certify the acknowledgment of deeds of conveyance of lands therein, shall be deemed and adjudged to be as good, valid and effectual in law for transferring, passing and conveying the estate, right, title and interest of such husband and wife, of, in and to the lands, tenements and hereditaments therein mentioned, and be in like manner entitled to be recorded, as if the acknowledgment of the execution of the same deed had been in the same and like way, manner and form taken and certified by any judge, alderman or justice of the peace, of and within this Commonwealth. 1840, April 16, P.L. 357, Sec. 15.

Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.